David Claerbout Boeken

Belgian artist David Claerbout (born 1969) is known for investigating the conceptual impact of the passage of time through his use of video and digital photography. His work skillfully interrogates both moving and still imagery to suggest an otherworldly level of existence, something that might refer to a specific place or event, but the timeline of which is not clear, oscillating between both past and present. His oeuvre is characterized by a meticulous attention to production details. With each of his projects Claerbout creates a small number of drawings, which help him to reflect upon and comprehend his concepts more thoroughly. Up to now, these works have not been afforded the attention they deserve. This publication addresses that oversight, presenting a comprehensive overview of Claerbout’s drawings created over a period of two decades.

David Claerbout's large-scale film projections are characterized by their extremely slow-motion image sequences that are created using computer-generated methods.Moving images freeze into still images. The themes of transience and stasis, and above all the majestic, unwavering nature of time, take on their own aesthetic in Claerbout's visual language.Based on this, the American art historian Russell Ferguson analyses David Claerbout's relationship to contemporary photography in his essay and explains his extremely precise working process, which often takes years.In a conversation with Thomas D. Trummer, David Claerbout talks about his philosophy and his perception of the world and the present, in particular against the background of the installations shown at the Kunsthaus Bregenz.English and German text.Published on occasion of the exhibition 'David Claerbout', 14 Jul - 07 Oct 2018, Kunsthaus Bregenz.Co-published with Kunsthaus Bregenz.

This book shows the work of the artist David Claerbout created on the occasion of the "Olympia : the real time desintegration into ruins of the Berlin Olympic stadium over the course of a thousand years" exhibition held in Kassel in 2016-2017. The artist shows a highly sophisticated digitally replicated Berlin Olympic stadium slowly decaying in real time, with the integration of real weather data